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Title: The Teaching of History
Author: Ernest C. Hartwell
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THE TEACHING OF HISTORY
by
ERNEST C. HARTWELL, M.A.
Superintendent of Schools, Petoskey, Mich.
Riverside Educational Monographs
Edited by Henry Suzzallo
Professor of the Philosophy of Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston, New York and Chicago
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1913
CONTENTS
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
I. SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
II. HOW TO BEGIN THE COURSE
III. THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE LESSON
IV. THE METHOD OF THE RECITATION
V. VARIOUS MODES OF REVIEW
VI. THE USE OF WRITTEN REPORTS
VII. EXAMINATIONS AS TESTS OF PROGRESS
OUTLINE
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
This volume is offered as a guide to history teachers of the high school
and the upper grammar grades. It is directly concerned with the teaching
methods to be employed in the history period. The author assumes the
limiting conditions that surround classroom instruction of the present
day; he also takes for granted the teacher's sympathy with modern aims
in history instruction. All discussions of purpose and content are
therefore subordinated to a clear presentation of the details of
effective teaching technique.
The reader into whose hands this volume falls will be deeply interested
in the ideals of teac